Senior Program Manager, Spotify
Finance
$155.9-222.8k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$155.9-222.8k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in Program Management, FinTech delivery and/or Strategy Operations
- FinTech and/or Finance Consulting background
- Familiar working on a global scale with international team across time zones
- Hands-on experience delivering software development programs, working with Finance, Product and Engineering orgs
- Experience with implementations, running/representing large, cross-functional initiatives and easily communicate strategies, goals, and progress status
- Able to lead multiple concurrent projects in an agile, fast-paced, frequently evolving environment
- Resilient, structured, organized and excellent attention to detail
- Exceptional communicator and influencer that reduces noise, identify and remove blockers, encourage collaboration, and continuously improve our ways of working
- Experience with following is a plus: Jira, Coda, LucidChart, Agile, SDLC, CI/CD, ERPs
What the job involves
- The Finance Program Ops team at Spotify is looking for an experienced Program Management professional to drive strategic execution of key programs across our core Finance and Engineering teams and other company verticals
- You will be responsible for facilitating collaboration between global teams, working with the mission leadership to drive large-scale company-wide initiatives, and ensuring alignment on initiative execution for longer term business strategies
- Your work will span multiple time zones and product areas, so we expect end-to-end oversight and management to stay aligned from discovery to delivery. To be successful in this role, you must build trust, establish rapport, and maintain communication with partners in multiple levels and groups
- Your strength should lie in seeing a comprehensive perspective and understand how all the moving parts relate to then systematize it into a functioning program
- Manage portfolio of key initiatives across Spotify in alignment with mission leadership, under deadlines and competing priorities and various states of maturity
- Partner closely with stakeholders across Finance (Accounting, Tax, FP&A), R&D (Engineering, Product), other vertical leads and fellow Program Managers to help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
- Communicate effectively with multiple levels including executive leadership team
- Influence key decision making with internal and cross-functional decision makers
- Monitor the effectiveness and progress of key initiatives and lead select initiatives personally and collaboratively
- Drive alignment in our Mission by developing, facilitating, and sustaining forums for cross functional discussions, decisions making, and knowledge sharing
- Streamline ongoing finance initiative needs (tooling, reporting, risk management, cross functional engagement, planning, etc.) and track progress towards long-term goals
- Support planning across the Company and Finance mission to ensure accurate sizing of work, surface and actively manage risks, blockers, decisions and escalations
- Understand Mission and company-wide initiatives and ensure our product area can build strategic, mutually beneficial relationships with other areas of Spotify, help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
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